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Went to Coney Island yesterday with a friend and my sister. This scene was just breathtaking. Like something out of ancient Greece. I wish I had taken a picture, but then that's what flickr is for. Click



Adorable 50s "Space Race" playing cards. Yay!

Am reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This bit made me laugh out loud! About the Babel fish, a creature that translates speech for you:

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own argument, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next pedestrian crossing.

Hahaha. I like it when an author manages to make fun of practically everyone with just one little passage.

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